User:Winterz
The following was generated using a perl program I wrote that reads the CMakeLists.txt files in kdelibs.
kdelibs Package Dependencies
| Package | Level | Description | Explanation |
|---|---|---|---|
| DBusMenuQt | Required | Support for notification area menus via the DBusMenu protocol | |
| DocBook XML | Required | Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML | XML DTDs for DocBook ${DOCBOOKXML_VERSIONS} and ${DOCBOOKXML_OLDDTD_VERSION} are needed |
| DocBook XSL | Required | Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML | |
| giflib | Required | GIF image format support | Required by khtml. |
| libjpeg | Required | JPEG image format support | Required by khtml. |
| libattica >= 0.1.90 | Required | Support for Get Hot New Stuff | |
| LibXML2 | Required | Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML | |
| xmllint | Required | Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML | |
| LibXSLT | Required | Required by the KDE help system to process DocBook XML | |
| Perl | Required | Needed for building kdelibs | |
| libpng | Required | PNG image format support | Required by khtml. |
| shared-mime-info >= 0.60 | Required | Allows KDE applications to determine file types | |
| Strigi >= 0.6.0 | Required | Desktop indexing and search support | Required by some critical kioslaves |
| ZLib | Required | Support for gzip compressed files and data streams | Required by the core KDE libraries and some critical kioslaves |
| LibACL | STRONGLY RECOMMENDED | Support for manipulating access control lists | |
| X Sync Extension (libXext) | STRONGLY RECOMMENDED | Efficient operation of KIdleTime | |
| Libintl | STRONGLY RECOMMENDED | Support for multiple languages | Enables KDE to be available in many different languages |
| OpenSSL | STRONGLY RECOMMENDED | Support for secure network communications (SSL and TLS) | KDE uses OpenSSL for the bulk of secure communications, including secure web browsing via HTTPS |
| X Rendering Extension (libXrender) | STRONGLY RECOMMENDED | Support for compositing, rendering operations, and alpha-blending | |
| Aspell | Optional | Spell checking support via Aspell | This is not needed for spell checking if Enchant is provided or only Hebrew spell checking is required |
| Avahi | Optional | Facilities for service discovery on a local network (DNSSD) | Either Avahi or DNSSD is required for KDE applications to make use of multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery |
| Bison | Optional | Allows the Solid predicate parser to be updated | Required by the UpdateSolidPredicateParser target (mainly useful for developers) |
| DNSSD | Optional | Facilities for service discovery on a local network | Either Avahi or DNSSD is required for KDE applications to make use of multicast DNS/DNS-SD service discovery |
| Enchant | Optional | Spell checking support via Enchant | |
| FAM | Optional | File alteration notification support via a separate service | Provides file alteration notification facilities using a separate service. |
| Flex | Optional | Allows the Solid predicate parser to be updated | Required by the UpdateSolidPredicateParser target (mainly useful for developers) |
| GSSAPI | Optional | Allows KIO to make use of certain HTTP authentication services | A MIT or HEIMDAL flavor of GSSAPI can be used |
| Grantlee >= 0.1.0 | Optional | ModelEventLogger code generation (part of the ProxyModel test suite) | Grantlee is used for generating compilable code by the ModelEventLogger. Without Grantlee, the logger will do nothing. |
| X Screensaver Extension (libXss) | Optional | Support for KIdleTime (fallback mode) | |
| HSpell | Optional | Spell checking support for Hebrew | Hebrew support can also be provided via Enchant, providing the correct Enchant backends are installed |
| HUPnP | Optional | UPnP support for Solid | Allows Solid to provide information about UPnP devices on the network |
| JasPer | Optional | Support for JPEG-2000 images | |
| media-player-info | Optional | Enables identification and querying of portable media players | Runtime-only dependency of the udev solid backend. Support for m-p-i is included even if not found during build |
| OpenEXR | Optional | Support for OpenEXR images | |
| PCRE | Optional | Perl-compatible regular expressions in KJS | Without PCRE, KJS will have extremely poor regular expression support, breaking many webpages. |
| QCA2 >= 2.0.0 | Optional | Support for remote plasma widgets | |
| Shared desktop ontologies >= 0.6.50 | Optional | Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system | |
| Soprano >= 2.5.60 | Optional | Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system | |
| Soprano Raptor Parser | Optional | Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system | |
| Soprano Redland Backend | Optional | Support for the Nepomuk semantic desktop system | |
| UDev | Optional | UDev support for Solid | Allows Solid to use UDev to provide information about devices on Linux |